Re: [PATCH] modules: lockdep: Suppress suspicious RCU usage warning

From: Jessica Yu
Date: Thu Dec 05 2019 - 14:18:13 EST


+++ Masami Hiramatsu [03/12/19 15:14 +0900]:
While running kprobe module test, find_module_all() caused
a suspicious RCU usage warning.

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=============================
WARNING: suspicious RCU usage
5.4.0-next-20191202+ #63 Not tainted
-----------------------------
kernel/module.c:619 RCU-list traversed in non-reader section!!

other info that might help us debug this:


rcu_scheduler_active = 2, debug_locks = 1
1 lock held by rmmod/642:
#0: ffffffff8227da80 (module_mutex){+.+.}, at: __x64_sys_delete_module+0x9a/0x230

stack backtrace:
CPU: 0 PID: 642 Comm: rmmod Not tainted 5.4.0-next-20191202+ #63
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS rel-1.12.1-0-ga5cab58e9a3f-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014
Call Trace:
dump_stack+0x71/0xa0
find_module_all+0xc1/0xd0
__x64_sys_delete_module+0xac/0x230
? do_syscall_64+0x12/0x1f0
do_syscall_64+0x50/0x1f0
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x49/0xbe
RIP: 0033:0x4b6d49
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This is because list_for_each_entry_rcu(modules) is called
without rcu_read_lock(). This is safe because the module_mutex
is locked.

Pass lockdep_is_held(&module_lock) to the list_for_each_entry_rcu()

s/module_lock/module_mutex/, but you don't have to respin the patch
just for this.

to suppress this warning, This also fixes similar issue in
mod_find() and each_symbol_section().

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@xxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks Masami! This looks good. I'll queue this up shortly after the
merge window.

Jessica

---
kernel/module.c | 9 ++++++---
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/module.c b/kernel/module.c
index cb6250be6ee9..38e5c6a7451b 100644
--- a/kernel/module.c
+++ b/kernel/module.c
@@ -214,7 +214,8 @@ static struct module *mod_find(unsigned long addr)
{
struct module *mod;

- list_for_each_entry_rcu(mod, &modules, list) {
+ list_for_each_entry_rcu(mod, &modules, list,
+ lockdep_is_held(&module_mutex)) {
if (within_module(addr, mod))
return mod;
}
@@ -448,7 +449,8 @@ bool each_symbol_section(bool (*fn)(const struct symsearch *arr,
if (each_symbol_in_section(arr, ARRAY_SIZE(arr), NULL, fn, data))
return true;

- list_for_each_entry_rcu(mod, &modules, list) {
+ list_for_each_entry_rcu(mod, &modules, list,
+ lockdep_is_held(&module_mutex)) {
struct symsearch arr[] = {
{ mod->syms, mod->syms + mod->num_syms, mod->crcs,
NOT_GPL_ONLY, false },
@@ -616,7 +618,8 @@ static struct module *find_module_all(const char *name, size_t len,

module_assert_mutex_or_preempt();

- list_for_each_entry_rcu(mod, &modules, list) {
+ list_for_each_entry_rcu(mod, &modules, list,
+ lockdep_is_held(&module_mutex)) {
if (!even_unformed && mod->state == MODULE_STATE_UNFORMED)
continue;
if (strlen(mod->name) == len && !memcmp(mod->name, name, len))